People Search Engines

A list of online tools for searching for information about people by first and last name. Most are 🇺🇸USA-focused and partially paid.

https://osint.link/social-media-intelligence-socmint/#generalpeople

Contributor Nihad Hassan

#osint #socmint

I constantly try out different browser extensions and constantly delete them. But I've been using one for years. It is simple, fast, and open source.

https://github.com/Ademking/BetterViewer

Does everything you need to do with an image in browser: zoom, rotate, reverse image search etc

GLOBAL BUILDING ATLAS

2.75 Billion Buildings worldwide 3D map with height of each object.

Link to online map and dataset:
https://github.com/zhu-xlab/GlobalBuildingAtlas

4.7 billion+ domain database.

Enter IP/IP range/domain to find associated domains and subdomains.

You also may just do GET-requests from command line.

https://ip.thc.org/

Contributor HackersChoice

DORKSEARCH

889K+ dorks library

Generate dorks for Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Startpage, Yahoo, Yandex and Baidu

AI dork builder

https://dorksearch.com/

PicDetective

New reverse image search engine. Good in exact matches searches.

https://picdetective.com/

* tested on Tom Valliant's photo (he is creator of OSINT LLM)

#osint #socmint

BHGrep (Browser History Grep)

Tool to search using regular expressions in the browser history. Useful for both #dfir and simply searching your own history.

https://github.com/jondot/bhgrep

Creator Jondot

Added it at awesome grep Github repo https://github.com/cipher387/awesome-grep/

The OSINT Rack


Online #osint tools directory by Mario Santella.

Breach data
Darkweb
Cryptocurrencies
GEOInt
Socmint
Crawling/scraping
Email/phone/domain investigations


https://www.mariosantella.com/the-osint-rack/

Financial OSINT: Guide to tracing corporate assets & networks

By Bowler Derek

Foundational theory and ethical-legal framework
Applied methodology: step-by-step practical implementation
Verification and analysis for reporting
Practice and resources


https://spotlight.ebu.ch/p/guide-tracing-corporate-assets

Tracking digital footprints with username and alias correlation

Initial scan (Username enumeration)
Visual correlation (Profile picture pivot)
Content/pattern analysis (Digital footprinting)
Data visualization
AI Assistance in analysis

https://spotlight.ebu.ch/p/tracking-digital-footprints-with

by Derek Bowler

5 sites to find deleted political posts

Video review by Bendobrown

Trump Archive
Factba.se
Politwoops
Trump's Truth
Polititweet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZi4iRN_Uj8

#socmint

How to Watch Deleted YouTube Videos: 5 Verified Methods

1: The Digital Forensic Method (Reverse Image Search)
2: The Wayback Machine
3: Alternative Video Archives
4: Search by Video I
5: Recovering Metadata from Playlists

https://picknar.com/how-to-watch-a-deleted-youtube-video/

By PicknarTeam

OSINT Browsers Extenions Lists


https://start.me/p/p1qj2E/osint-extensions
https://i-intelligence.eu/insights/2025-02-10-the-best-chrome-extensions-for-osint-professionals-researchers-and-journalists-in-2025
https://github.com/CScorza/EstensioniChromeOSINT
https://github.com/ubikron/awesome-osint-chrome-extensions
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alozano-cibergy_31daysofosint-advancedosint-cyber-activity-7409313591129948160-FzNx
https://github.com/The-Osint-Toolbox/OSINT-Browser-Extensions
https://github.com/osintambition/Awesome-Browser-Extensions-for-OSINT

How Hackers Find Secrets Hidden in Public Websites

Open-source recon (OSINT): map the public footprint
Hunt in source code  -  GitHub, JS, and public repos
Secret scanning & live monitoring
Wayback Machine & historical artifacts

By Vipu Sonule

https://thehackerslog.substack.com/p/how-hackers-find-secrets-hidden-in

A list of reverse image search engines that I learned about relatively recently:

surfface.com
reversly.ai
PicDetective.com
Faceseek.online
faceonlive.com
lenso.ai

#osint #socmint

The Digital Detective’s Arsenal: Essential Tools for Forensics & Investigation


Evidence Integrity & Hashing
Securing the Data
Full Forensic Suites
File Recovery & Carving
Memory & Malware Forensics
OSINT & Reconnaissance

https://medium.com/@eRRoR_/the-digital-detectives-arsenal-essential-tools-for-forensics-investigation-d593083b39be

by eRRoR_

Previously, when analyzing the popularity of a company (brand), it was necessary to look at its ranking in Google. In 2026, it will be necessary to look at visibility in AI assistant responses.

A partially free tool that allows to analyze this in depth

https://search-visibility.ai/

The investigator’s guide to website infrastructure: WHOIS, SSL, and server fingerprinting

Foundational theory and ethical-legal framework
Applied methodology: step-by-step practical implementation
Verification and analysis for reporting

https://spotlight.ebu.ch/p/website-infrastructure-osint-investigation-guide

by Derek Bowler

OSINT EVENTS

Calendar of conferences, workshops, webinars and trainings.

https://osintnetwork.com/osint-events.html

If you have your own #OSINT event, you can submit a request to add it to the list.

OSINT Investigation Reports Templates (FREE)

- breach analysis report
- network reconnaissance
- communication patterns
- domain website
- individual investigation

https://github.com/JambaAcademy/OSINT/tree/main/osint-templates/investigation-reports

By Jamba Academy

CERT | GREP

Search Certificate Transparency logs by domain or part of domain name (with regular expressions and wildcards).

Good for searching subdomains and not only.

https://certgrep.sh/